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Stellar Partners with TransferTo for Improved International Mobile Money Transfers

Cryptocurrencies and digital assets all have a role to play in the world of remittances and money transfers. Stellar is making inroads in this regard thanks to a new partnership with TransferTo. It’s an important step in the right direction, and one that shows Stellar may be able to rival Ripple in the long run. […] дальше »

2018-7-27 02:00


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EOS Is Still A Favourite In China, Now It’s Flying

Whilst the future for cryptocurrency in China is uncertain, there are still plenty of research authorities working in the country that are designed to explore and interpret cryptocurrencies. Within this, one such authority, the Chinese Centre for Information Industry Development (CCID) has released a number of rankings for cryptocurrencies from May this year, with the most recent update to the ranking taking place this week. дальше »

2018-7-25 14:00


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Justin Sun now owns BitTorrent, the first of his Infinity stones

The acquisition of BitTorrent by Justin Sun has been finalized, effectively bringing 100 million new users to TRON’s (TRX) decentralized ecosystem. News first broke of the deal back in May, when rumors surfaced that Justin Sun – the founder of blockchain operating system TRX – was interested in purchasing the peer-to-peer (p2p) file-sharing platform and its architecture. дальше »

2018-7-24 15:48


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Governance, Part 2: Plutocracy Is Still Bad

Coin holder voting, both for governance of technical features, and for more extensive use cases like deciding who runs validator nodes and who receives money from development bounty funds, is unfortunately continuing to be popular, and so it seems worthwhile for me to write another post explaining why I (and Vlad Zamfir and others) do not consider it wise for Ethereum (or really, any base-layer blockchain) to start adopting these kinds of mechanisms in a tightly coupled form in any significant way. дальше »

2018-7-21 23:03


Notes on Blockchain Governance

In which I argue that “tightly coupled” on-chain voting is overrated, the status quo of “informal governance” as practiced by Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, Zcash and similar systems is much less bad than commonly thought, that people who think that the purpose of blockchains is to completely expunge soft mushy human intuitions and feelings in favor of completely algorithmic governance (emphasis on “completely”) are absolutely crazy, and loosely coupled voting as done by Carbonvotes and similar systems is underrated, as well as describe what framework should be used when thinking about blockchain governance in the first place. дальше »

2018-7-21 23:03


Penn Study: 4 In 5 Leading ICOs Don’t Keep Promises and May Contain Backdoors

According to new research findings from the University of Pennsylvania, many ICOs are taking their investors’ trust for granted. Not only do ICO developers seem to not implement promised features, the investment market as a whole seems to be optimal for ICOs that can be modified at any time. The researchers dug deep into code […] дальше »

2018-7-21 06:25


Atlas Protocol: A new roadway for storage and data processing, privacy prioritized

What is GDPR? The GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) is a European Union regulation on consumer data and privacy protection. After four years of preparation and debate, the law was finally approved by the European Union Parliament on April 14th, 2016 and went into effect in the EU’s 28 member states on May 25th, 2018. […] дальше »

2018-7-16 04:58